1895,] OBITUARY.-Sir T. P. Hankin. Mrs. Wellesley. of Huntingdonshire, now his widow, by whom he has left no family. He was son-in-law to Captain Read, who was brother-in-law to Dr. Wilmot; and so firmly persuaded were Sir T. P. Hankin and Captain Read of Dr. Wilmot's being the author of Junius, that the former in October 1813 informed his first cousin, Olivia Wilmot Serres, soi-disant Princess of Cumberland, in a letter to her daughter, that had he known she was engaged about the life of Dr. Wilmot, he could have fur nished many useful documents as to Junius, for her work. His gallant and noble disposition is well known by his superior officers, by whom he was universally respected. Amidst his military pursuits the gallant Colonel did not neglect the belles lettres. His remains were deposited in the Cathedral of Norwich, with the military honours becoming his rank, and with those attendant marks of universal esteem and regret which bis public services and his private worth so justly merited; and they were followed from the barracks to the grave, not only by the officers and men of the regiment, but by the most respectable personages in the city and its neighbour hood. Lord Stafford, Mr. Edmond Wode house the Member, and Sir R. J. Harvey the High Sheriff of the County, Major Storey, R.M. Doctors Yellowly and Wright, Messrs. Kerison, Harvey, Hudson Gurney, Deere, Hawkes, &c. with the Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Steward, and Sheriff of the City joining in the procession. The Rev. Dr. Fisher, the senior Prebendary, officiated at the funeral, the psalms and anthems being sung by the Choir, attended by the band of the regiment. MRS. W. P. L. WELLESLEY. Sept. 12. At Richmond, aged 35, Mrs. Wellesley Pole Long Wellesley. Although her death was unexpected at the moment it occurred, she had been long lingering. On the 19th the remains of this amiable, unfortunate, and much-lamented lady, were removed from Richmond, on their way to Draycot, in Wiltshire, the seat of Lady Tilney, there to be deposited in the family vault. The melancholy procession consisted of the hearse, in which the coffin was borne, drawn by six horses, and three mourning coaches, drawn by four horses each. The first coach contained Mr. Scarborough and Mr. Wright, and in the two following were the nurse, three maid-servants, coachman, and footman of the late lamented lady. The two Misses Long, and Mr. Bicknel, the late unhappy lady's steward, set off for Draycot post on Monday. His Grace the Dake of Wellington was to join the mournful procession on Thursday at Chippenham, within five miles of Draycot. 467 Two days previous to the removal of the remains from Richmond, intelligence reached her friends that it was the determination of Mr. Long Wellesley to come over from France to attend the funeral, and this circumstance gave them all great pain and uneasiness. Some considerations, however, suspended Mr. Long Wellesley's determination of coming over, if he ever felt such a disposition; for on the day before the removal of the remains, a courier arrived at Richmond from Mr. Long Wellesley in France, to state that he should not attend the funeral, but bearing a peremptory order from him, that his three children, two boys and a girl, should be given up to the courier, to be conveyed to France, there to be brought up and educated under the auspices of their father. The Misses Long, sisters of the late unfortunate lady, who from the period of her separation from her husband to her death, have constantly resided with her, immediately on the death of their amiable sister, removed to another house, taken for the temporary purpose in ans other part of Richmond, and thither they removed with them the three children. On the arrival of the courier at the house of the Misses Long, he demanded the children, according to the written order which he produced; but he received a direct refusal to deliver them up from these ladies, and he obliged to retire. On Tuesday the Misses Long set off from Richmond for Draycot, there to join their mother, Lady Tilney. Previous, however, to their departure from Richmond, whither they intended to return after the funeral, they determined to adopt every precaution to prevent the children from being carried off by stratagem or by force. Accordingly, anticipating that Mr. Long Wellesley might, at some unseasonable hour, suddenly intrude himself with violence, and carry off the children during the absence of the Misses Long in Wiltshire, these ladies applied, through their law agent, to a magistrate, for the aid of a peace-officer, to remain in their house at Richmond, in care of their house and all its inmates until their return; and accordingly, an active and discreet policeofficer was sent down, with directions to take into custody any person, be he whom he may, who should attempt to use any violence towards the property, the house, or its inmates. One of the children is a girl not five years old. The 7,000, a-year, awarded by the decree of the creditors, will go to the support of the children of Mr. Long Wellesley; in this case he will lose the 4,000l. per ann. his late wife made over to him. The property, on the day of marriage, exceeded in value 40,000l. a-year. Some of the youthful companions of 468 OBITUARY.-H. Knight, Esq.-W. Fawkes, Esq.-W. Fell, Esq. [Nov. this ill-fated lady say, that she frequently expressed an opinion that she was too rich to be happy, or likely to meet with a match of disinterested affection. We believe, that her marriage was one not of affection, but of importunity-that she yielded to a long and indefatigable siege; and not without the most pointed and daring threats, that the determined lover would not yield but with his life. From the moment she first appeared in life, she was distinguished by kindness of heart, and affability of manner-her spirit was forgiving, and her feelings were warm and affectionate. HENRY KNIGHT, ESQ. Sept. 19. At Tythegston Hall, co. Glam. aged 62, Henry Knight, Esq. Vice Lieutenant of that county, and late Colonel of its Militia. He was descended from Wilcock Turber vill of Tythegstou, who lived in the 15th century. In the reign of Hen. VIII. the estate devolved to the family of Lougher by the marriage of Cecil Turbervill to Watkin Lougher of Newton, Glamorgan, from whose descendants in the female line the grandfather of Mr. Knight inherited the property. He received his education at Gloucester College School, and at Winchester, after which he became a Member of Pembroke College, Oxford. On quitting the Uni versity he travelled through Italy, and acquired that correct taste which was displayed in the improvement of his residence. WALTER FAWKES, Esq. Oct. 24. At his house, in Baker-street, London, aged 56, Walter Fawkes, Esq. of Farnley Hall, Yorkshire. Mr. Fawkes was returned a member for Yorkshire at the general election in 1806, and retired from Parliament at the dissolution in the spring of 1807. He served the office of High Sheriff of the county of York, in 1823. On the 10th of Dec. 1823, he had the misfortune to lose his first wife. He married, secondly, Jan. 4, 1816, the Hon. Mrs, Butler, daughter of J. Fernon, Esq. of Clontorp Castle, co. Dublin, and relict of Hon. P. Butler, third son of the Earl of Carrick. He was brother to F. Hawksworth, Esq. of Barmbro' Grange, and the Rev. A. Hawksworth, of Leathley Hall, near Otley, whose deaths have occurred within the short space of six months. Mr. Fawkes was a gentleman universally esteemed lor his urbanity, and most deservedly sustained the character of an excellent landlord as well as a kind master. In his public career he was a firm supporter of the Whig interest, and a strong advocate for Parliamentary reform. was a great admirer of the fine arts, and He had some plates of local views engraved at his own expense. He was the author also, of two political pamphlets, and of a "Chronology of the History of Modern Europe," 4to. 1810. WILLIAM FELL, ESQ. Lately. Aged 46, W. W. Fell, Esq. Barrister-at-Law; and who had just entered upon the duties of his situation as successor to Mr. Norris, in the office of Stipendiary Magistrate at Manchester. He went to Liverpool for the purpose of arranging some business at the Kirkdale Sessions, and returned from thence to the Crown Inn, Redcross-street, in the course of Monday. He there took his place for Preston, by the New Times coach, at five o'clock the following morning, and went to dine with some friends at the Waterloo Hotel, from whence he returned about half-past eleven, apparently in good health, and retired to bed, giving directions to be called about four in the morning, in order to be ready for the coach at five. At four o'clock the porter knocked at the room door, and, receiving no answer, again knocked in a louder manner. The knocking, however, not being attended to, be retired to inquire whether any other person had been placed in the same room. Finding that there was not, he returned, opened the door, and found the unfortunate gentleman lying undressed, on his back, upon the floor, with his head under the washing-stand, and insensible. The purter called his master, and immediately procured a surgeon, who found that the vital spark had fled. From the appearances in the room and washing-stand, it is supposed that he got out of bed in order to discharge his stomach, and probably burst a blood vessel in the exertion. It appears that he drank cold punch in the early part of the evening, and Champagne towards the latter end, but he had not the least appearance of inebriation when he returned to the Crown Ion. A special inquest was convened on Tuesday, before the coroner, Wm. Molyneux, Esq. attended by Mr. Statham, town clerk, and upon the evidence of the medical gentle. men the verdict of the jury was, that he died in a fit of apoplexy. Mr. Fell was in the prime of life, and had attained considerable eminence in his profession, and was deservedly much esteemed by the gentlemen of the profes sion and a large circle of friends. The poignant grief of his amiable wife and family will be more easily imagined than it can be described. 1825.] OBITUARY.-Mess. Paget, Miller, Marriott, &c. and highly respected by all who enjoyed the intercourse of his society, as was amply attested by the unusual gloom which the intelligence of his decease pro. duced in his immediate neighbourhood, where he was always distinguished for zealous loyalty to his King, and sincere attachment to the Church of England. From bis earliest youth he evinced the same bias for the study of ecclesiastical architecture and general antiquarian research, which so much distinguished his late brother, the Rev. Richard Paget, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, who contributed many interesting papers to this Magazine under the signatures of D. T. and H. P.; and to whom will be found a just tribute in our number for May 1795, page 382. The subject of this notice was educated at Oriel College, since which time he gradually acquired, and critically elucidated a valuable collection of specimens of our earliest typography, and had recently completed a perfect and probably unique series of all the English coins current since the Conquest: and though his innate diffidence in his own powers precluded him from appearing in public as a writer, yet the value of his private communications on subjects connected with our early literature, has been frequently acknow. ledged by those conversant in antiquarian lore. MR. CHARLES MILLER. He Nov. 18. Aged 46, Mr. Charles Miller, of Aldgate High-street, Jeweller. bore more than twelve years of most tedious and lingering suffering, with a patience and resignation almost unexampled. Confined, for the whole of that long period, to his chair, by paralysis of the lower extremities, be continued, till within a few weeks of his death, to give assiduous attention to his business, to perform all the duties of a husband and father, and even to join in the placid enjoyments of domestic society; evincing a calmness of mind and serenity of temper that seemed alone to combat with and arrest the insidious progress of inveterate and hopeless disease. Mr. Miller was the only son of Thomas Miller, sometime of the Ordnance Office in the Tower, and afterwards of Gravesend, Gent. and grandson of John Miller of Chichester, Esq. a younger son of Sir John Miller of East Lavant in Sussex, the second Baronet of that family. He has left a widow and one infant son to lament his untimely loss. MR. A. H. MARRIOTT. Sept. 3. At Plymouth, aged 73, Mr. Arthur H. Marriott, in which town he had lived upwards of twenty years. The deceased was formerly a comedian, and 469 played for several years on the boards of the old theatre, Oxford, with considerable success, being at that period a great favourite. He possessed almost to the last a fund of genuine humour and originality. The deceased had accumulated a sum of money sufficient to render his vale of life smooth; but a transaction which occurred fourteen years since most wretchedly embittered his latter days. About that period he purchased some premises in Stonehouse; after he had paid for them, and had had possession, it was contended that the person who sold them had no authority, and that deceased's title was consequently bad. A bill in Chancery was filed against him, and for nearly fourteen years has this chancery suit been eating to his heart's core." He has been repeatedly heard to say, "were it not for that law suit I should be the happiest man alive, but as it is, I am the most wretched; for so long a period has he suffered the "law's delay," being unwilling to lose his little property without a struggle, and there being no other means of getting rid of this suit. At last, death put a period to his sufferings, but not before the Lord Chancellor had put an end. to the cause; for, a day or two preceding his death, judgment was given against him, but of this he was never acquainted, as he was too far gone to be troubled with the event of that cause, which to him had been a most grievous one. MR. JOHN KENNEDY. Nov. 12. In Marsham-street, Westminster, at a very advanced age, and after a lingering illness, Mr. John Kennedy. For many years he had been head doorkeeper at the House of Commons (a place of great emolument), and was well known to the several members, and to the frequenters of the lobby. In this situation he amassed a considerable fortune, and had large estates in his native county of Merioneth, Wales, being born at Gevanes. He was an intimate favourite with the late Chief Baron Richards, with whom he used frequently to dine, and to whom he once intended to leave the bulk of his property. Though the situations of the two persons nominally were so different, they were neighbours born; had been educated together, and, through after-life continued on the most friendly terms. The age and infirmities of Mr. Kennedy compelled him to retire from his situation at the latter end of the last session of Parliament; but for several preceding sessions he had been unable to attend to its duties. MR. JOHN JACKSON. Oct. 20. At Brakenrigg, in the parish of Lesmahagow, Scotland, aged 76, Mr. John Jackson. It is well worthy of re mark 470 OBITUARY.-Mr. Jackson.-C, Demetriades: mark that the predecessors of the deceased person, have successively possessed the farm of Brakenrigg about three hundred years, from the estate of Blackwood, and that they have likewise successively been honoured with the title of "King of Brakenrig." The late deceased King had in his possession a sword and powderhorn, with which his grandfather fought at the battle of Bothwell-bridge. The manner in which he came by the possession of the sword is somewhat interesting. His grandfather, immediately on his return from that memorable engagement, baving occasion to be in the field with his sword under his arm (as was customary in those times), and espying a company of cavalry approaching him, he possessed sufficient presence of mind as instantly to plunge it into the moss. After the departure of the soldiers, he returned to the spot for the purpose of finding his sword, but in vain; the circumstance was made known to his relations and neighbours, and many a fruitless search was made for its discovery, till after having remained for upwards of one hundred years in this obscure situa tion, it was accidentally found by the present Mr. Brown, of Auchrabbert. CONSTANTINE Demetriades. We have been favoured with the following particulars, from the pen of a respectable Correspondent, who has long been a resident of Durham, and from personal observation had every opportunity of learning the character of this singular individual. The account of Constantine Demetriades in your last Obituary, p. 377, was perhaps copied from the newspapers, where it has before appeared. Some of the particulars given of him place him in an unfavourable light, and must leave impressions, which, I am convinced, are erroneous. It is only justice to this eccentric man's character, which was uniformly inoffensive while he resided here, to vindicate it from these aspersions. I chiefly allude to the story of his "annuity," and his "getting possession of the whole, or part, of the principal, and bidding good-bye to his Durham friends, without ceremony." Of all this there is not a word of truth. When he came to Durham, he brought letters of recommendation to me (and 1 believe to others also) from two or three respectable gentlemen in Newcastle, in consequence of which I noticed him, took lessons from him, and knew more of him than any other individual here. He was with me several times in the week during his residence in this city; and, having had opportunities of befriending him, I seemed to have his entire confidence, and received from him an account of his early life and wanderings. [Nov. His abilities as a teacher of languages were certainly moderate, and he did not procure more than three or four pupils here. I am not aware that he bad the patronage of any of the Clergy; but I mention not this as conveying any censure on them; for (although he complained to me that he was not countenanced by them) I am not aware that he had any peculiar claim on their liberality. They certainly never purchased any " annuity" for him. I have not heard that the inten tion of doing so ever existed. Of course he could not "get possession of the prin cipal." And, with respect to the uncha, ritable insinuation of dishonesty, although he always lived most parsimoniously, be always paid what he owed; and I am con. fident he did not leave Durham with any undischarged debt, nor with any imputation on his moral character. To correct the misstatements above al luded to, was the immediate motive of my making this communication; but they are not the only errors in your Obituary. I never understood from him that, it was "by the persuasion of Lord Elgin be was induced to come to this country," much less that "he relinquished his sacerdotal charge at the instance of the noble Lord." On the contrary, the account, which I had from himself, was that, after he left Athens, he resided some time at Jassy and at Bu charest, where he officiated in the Greek Church, until causes (which it is not new necessary for me to disclose) induced him to go to Trieste, at which place be ex pected a situation in the Greek congrega tion. Disappointed in this, and falling in with Romish Priests, he was persuaded to forsake the Greek profession of faith, and adopt that of Rome. By the advice of his proselyting friends, he went to Malta, in prospect of a maintenance in the Romish Church; but, again disappointed, some acrimonious expressions which fell from him were heard and conveyed to his superiors; and the result was, that the since rity of his conversion was more than sus pected, and the alterative remedy of a visit to the prisons of the Inquisition was administered. In a short time be obtain ed bis release; and then he made the best of his way to the Protestant countries in the North of Europe, resolved to drop all farther connexion with the " Pope Devil," as he usually called the head of the Romish Church. At Berlin he became acquainted with Dr. Brown, one of the physicians (or, as he always styled him, the Archiater) of the Prussian Court; and it was on the suggestion of Dr. Brown, and not of Lord Elgin, that Demetriades came to the resolution of trying his fortune in England, Through the Doctor he procured a passport from Lord Elgin (then the British Ambas 1825.] OBITUARY.-C. Demetriades.—John Brown. Ambassador), and this was all that his Lordship had to do with his visit to this island. Poor Constantine was perhaps "below par" as a teacher of languages, but his misfortune was to be unconscious of this. He attributed his want of success, not to his want of abilities, but to the practices of some underband enemies, against whom he was in the habit of inveighing for "taking away his respect," to use his own phrase. This idea, which had the full possession of his mind, together with the dread of being sent out of the country under the Alien Act, or of coming to want while he remained here, produced alternate firs of irritation and depression, and may account for, if not entirely justify, his par simonious habits. How be conducted himself after he left this City, I do not know. I thought it due to the poor man's character to state the above facts, in order to remove the unfa vourable impressions of him which your Obituary is calculated to convey. J. W. JOHN BROWN. Sept. 24. At Broughton Gifford, near Melksham, aged 77, John Brown, 40 years a mendicant. In early life he was apprenticed to a weaver, which trade he followed for a few years after arriving at matarity, working for a respectable clothier at Melksham. The circuit to which he confined himself in his excursions, did not extend much beyond the clothing district of Wiltshire, and part of the adjoining county of Somerset, but his visits were generally very regular, and when rebuked for repeating them too often, he would reply that it was so long since he came last (mentioning the time), adding, "and I come only Once in so many weeks." Though in general importunate in his supplications for charity, yet when refused on the plea of there being nothing for him, he would coolly observe, as he walked away, "never mind, never mind, it will do when I call next time." In some of the villages at a distance from home, he has appeared as a silent petitioner, imploring the assistance of the spectators by signs only. On such occasions he was known by the name of the dumb-man, and was generally suc cessful in obtaining food or money; bat when seen by some of his neighbours, and reproved for his deception, he has readily found his speech, saying, "you mind your business, and I will mind mine." He would sometimes observe to his neighbours on returning from his excursions, that he would rather see the heads than the tails," at the different houses he went to, thereby insinuating that the masters were more attentive to his plea of distress than the servants. When at a distance 471 from any houses, he has been known to accost the labourers in the fields, begging a part of their food, saying he was nearly perishing for want; and so meagre and abject was his appearance, and his manner of imploring them so earnest, that he has been relieved by those who could ill afford to share a pittance of their food. A few days before his death, he went to a gentleman's house where he had been frequently relieved, and invited one of the servants to attend his funeral when he died, which he said would, not be long first; he entreated him to attend, whether he received any further invitation or not. The hut in which Brown lived and died corresponded with its inhabitant ;—its ex terior, mean and wretched in the extreme, whilst its interior contained an assemblage of poverty, filth, and misapplied articles of value, blended together, without any regard to order or discrimination. This hovel, for it deserves not the name of house, is about fifteen feet in length, by five in breadth, and seven in height, com. prehending only one apartment, and in this miserable abode its miserable inmate had buddled together the following, amongst other, articles:-One bed and beadstead, four chairs, three boxes, seven teakettles, four saucepans, five frying-pans, two gridirons, ten pepper-boxes, four flour. dredgers, forty table and tea spoons, three tea cannisters, four tea trays, one han dred and twenty dowlas and Holland shirts, one hundred and thirty pocket and neck handkerchiefs, forty cravats or stocks of cambric muslin, twenty pair of stockings, two night caps, thirty-four pair of shoes entirely new, and a great number of old ones, three pair of new buckskin breeches and many old ones, five coats and four waistcoats, three pair of gaiters (new), six hats three narrow and three broad brims, four smock frocks, a silver watch, and a pair of plated buckles for shoes. A large quantity of old silver (shillings, &c.), which sold for 127. at the rate of 54d. per shilling, and about 31. worth of old sixpences, halfpence, and penny pieces; four large bags full of meat in an advanced state of putrefaction, and about two bushels full of pieces of cheese, too bad to be given to pigs. In a neighbour's house Brown had deposited a large chest and three boxes full of linen, shoes, and other articles; for the preservation of which the person was paid 10. after his decease. Notwithstanding he had collected so large a quantity of clothes, some of which were in excellent condition, he was frequently known to go into neighbouring towns to purchase wearing apparel, linen, &c. which on his return home he would put away in the most incongruous manuer-(as for example a |